It's an excuse to sell more to people who only need or want a part of the plugin. I also object to iZotope trying to slam a bunch of plugins into one "suite" that you have to use together. That just isn't a huge achievement these days. It's of solid quality, and good enough to do a fairly good master. The strengths of Ozone are accessibility, ease of use, and telling people who do not want to think about mastering that they might want to have a multiband compressor in there to make things louder. The Glue is an analog modeled compressor plug-in based on The classic 80s British big console buss compressor with some handy additional features. I would argue, even worse compared to the FabFilter suite. If youre looking for a really strong but simple compressor, that gets your mix or instruments really loud, then The Glue by Cytomic is the right plugin for you. It works well as a quick-stop solution to getting the mastering "done", but the results weren't much better than other alternatives on the market. It's that it's mediocre in most respects. It's not that Ozone 5 is particularly bad at what it does. I'd buy this if it went for 1/6th of the cost of the entire thing. I object to the naming conventions "Retro" and "Warm", rather than descriptive explanations on how they work. This I feel is the first part of the plugin that's worth paying for.Įxciter: And this is essentially the main part that's worth it. It has intersample detection, which is great, though. And when I mean essentially a limiter, I mean that it is a limiter that uses extra CPU, and doesn't give you proper control over the attack/release/ratio. Maximizer: The maximizer is quite a solid setup, but essentially a limiter. This is in a neat package, however, and therefore worth at least something for your money. Which is bad, since there are options that are.ĭynamics: Similarly, this doesn't really do anything that couldn't be done without it. I didn't test this, but I'm also willing to bet that it isn't mono-combatible. Ableton setup is more modular, and can be saved as a unit just as fine for your mastering chains. It's a matter of accessibility, here, I suppose. Imager: Essentially a multiband-chain with Ableton utility and a haas-delay on each band. Mostly aimed at mastering engineers who have clients that don't know what they're doing. Not much use for the home musician who probably mixes/masters his own set: You could just go back and fix the space in the mix. See: Digital EQ Fact & Myth, and consider that nearly all DAWs these days have a proper algorithmic EQ built in However, I would like to go through it component-for component to explain why I feel the way that I do.Įqualizer: Decent, but not particularly impressive. , from a source without conflict of interest.
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It's a very fairly priced, professional quality package for anyone interested and wanting to learn more about mastering.
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Babaluma wrote:For all the naff tracks out there that somebody has wacked a preset from a cracked copy of Ozone on, there are also pros using it with astounding results on a daily basis.